RECAP

Recap:

Dean and Sam walk into a bank and Dean tells his brother to trust him. He then goes tthe counter, flirts with Megan the teller, and asks for change for a $100. Dean and Sam then pull out guns and tell everyone to get into the vault. They then open fire and kill everyone, making sure that they’re captured on camera.

At a hidden cabin, Bobby injects the captive Chet with various substances to get him to talk, but nothing affects him. When Sam and Dean arrive, Chet informs them that Edgar is still alive, despite the fact that they dropped a car on him. He explains that he tracked them using pattern recognition software and the knowledge of their aliases they obtained from Castiel’s mind, and informs them that he’s the least of their concerns. Chet tells them to watch the news and they tune into a broadcast of Sam and Dean killing the people in the bank. They realized that the Leviathans duplicated them, and Chet calls out that they were able to get some hair samples from a shower drain. Sam figures the Leviathans are trying to discredit them and Bobby says that they have to stay in hiding rather than go after them. The brothers insist on dealing with their duplicate and Bobby sends them to talk to Frank Devearux, an old friend.

The brothers head for Frank’s and stop for gas. Sam goes inside to get food and realizes that the cashier has recognized them from the newscasts. He quickly drives off with Dean before the police can arrive.

FBI special agents Morris and Valente arrive at a new bank shooting but get word that Sam and Dean have been spotted over a thousand miles away, and head out to investigate.

Dean and Sam arrive at Frank’s. The house appears deserted and the door is unlocked. The brothers go inside and find Frank waiting, holding a gun on them. He figures they’re the real Winchesters, not the doppelgangers, and asks who they are. When they finally confirm that Bobby sent them, Frank disgustedly accepts who they are and that he owes Bobby for saving his life. He then takes them into his workshop where he has dozens of monitors tuned into the Internet. The brothers ask for help and Frank says that he can wipe all of their IDs, but they’ll have to stay out of sight of any security cameras, and insists that the government is monitoring all of them. He then smashes Sam’s laptop and gives him a new one, demanding $5,000.

Bobby keeps trying to find something that will hurt Chet but has no success. Chet warns that once the spell wears off, he’ll break free and eat first Bobby and then everyone he knows. Angry, Bobby successfully decapitates him.

The next morning, Frank gives the brothers a list of the banks that their duplicates have hit. Sam thanks him but Frank says that he’s sending them to get killed. He also warns them to lose the Impala because the duplicates are using one as well.

Sheriff Mills shows up at Bobby’s doorstep with beer and tries to thank him. He invites her in she wonders how he’s doing given that his house has been burned down, but Bobby insists that he’s fine. Mills offers to cook and he agrees, and then goes downstairs to check on Chet. He discovers that the head has crawled back and reattached itself, and Chet says that it won’t be that easy. Bobby agrees but says that it’s a start and decapitates him again.

Dean and Sam drive off in a new car, but Dean isn’t happy that the “baby” is locked up. Sam finally realizes that their duplicates are hitting the towns that the brothers originally worked after they got back together. They head for St. Louis, the next town on the list, and Dean looks forward to stopping at his favorite diner.

The duplicate Sam and Dean are eating at the diner and discussing their originals’ issues. They wonder why the Winchesters are so important, but they have no choice but to obey orders. The duplicates then tell one of the patrons to start taking video of them and then pull out guns and take everyone hostage.

Bobby calls to tell Sam and Dean that decapitation will slow the Leviathans down. They hear Mills in the background but Bobby denies that he has a woman there. He then tells them that their duplicates have already struck in St. Louis, and the brothers figure they’re heading for Ankeny, Iowa.

Morris and Valente arrive in St. Louis and check out the diner. They see the footage of the brothers killing people, finishing up with the cameraman. They then address the camera, saying that they’re heading for Iowa.

As Bobby prepares to try electricity, he brushes Chet’s arm and the Leviathan transforms into Bobby, with all of his memories. The creature taunts Bobby with how sad his life is.

Sam and Dean arrive in Ankeny and spot their doppelgangers. They call Bobbybut he admits that he doesn’t have anything better than decapitation. Before the Winchestres can move in, the police arrive and arrest them, just as their duplicates planned.

Bobby’s doppelganger tells Bobby that he just pretends to be a cynic, and that he has hopes to end up with Mills. The doppelganger asks why he bothers, and Bobby picks up a machete and prepares to cut him. Before he can say anything, fluid drips down from the ceiling onto the doppelganger, causing him to scream in pain. Bobby goes up and finds Mills cleaning the floor. He kisses her and then asks what was in the bucket.

Sam and Dean demand a phone call but the sheriff puts Dean in a cell and sends Sam to the interrogation room. Outside, their doppelgangers take on the form of deputies, go inside, and start killing officers. Meanwhile, the sheriff goes to see Dean, who insists that he’s innocent and asks for one phone call. The sheriff relents and calls Bobby, trying to explain what’s going on without giving things away to the sheriff. Bobby tells him that the Leviathans are vulnerable to sodium borate. The sheriff listens in and finally cuts off the call, thinking that Bobby and the Winchesters are nuts. However, when he goes back to the squad room, he sees two of his deputies eating the others. As the sheriff watches, they transform back into Sam and Dean. He goes back and frees Dean, who tells him to find anything with sodium borate in it.

The Dean doppelganger finds Sam locked up in the interrogation room and goes inside, explaining who he is.

Dean grabs a gun from one of the dead deputies and runs into the Sam doppelganger. It easily disarms him and throws him against the wall.

The Dean doppelganger tells Sam how much he’s grown to them, and says that they could be so much more if they weren’t worried about doing good.

Dean goes for a fire axe and the sheriff throws sodium borate on the doppelganger, giving Dean the opportunity to decapitate it.

The Dean doppelganger tells Sam that Dean thinks he’s insane and killed Amy, and then enjoys the look of shock on Sam’s face. It prepares to eat Sam, but Dean breaks in, douses it with sodium borate, and decapitates it. The sheriff frees Sam and agrees to help fake their deaths when the FBI arrives. Sam hesitates and Dean asks if he’s fine, and Sam says that he is.

Later, the sheriff and his daughter, the coroner, tells Valente and Morris that he got the drop on the brothers and shot them, and then sent their bodies to the crematorium. The agents are unhappy that there are no bodies, but decide to take the easy way out and close the case.

Mills prepares to leave and Bobby thanks her for the help. He then says that there’s one more thing. He gives her Chet’s head and asks her to toss it in the river, and then kisses her on the check. Mills smiles and leaves.

The sheriff’s daughter is examining the body and telling her father that it’s not human. Agent Valente returns and says it doesn’t matter, and then reveals that it’s a Leviathan and eats them. He wraps up the corpses and then calls his boss, Ricahrd Roman, and explains that the Sam and Dean doppelgangers were decapitated and their heads were taken. Roman figures that they can’t try the same thing twice without giving things away to the media.

Roman gets into his limo and finds Crowley waiting for him. Crowley introduces himself and suggests that they should work together. When Roman wonders why, Crowley points out that he opened the portal. However, Roman isn’t impressed and says that he isn’t interested in working with demons, which he considers lower than humans. Crowley considers and then teleports away.

Dean and Sam pull over to dump the heads, but Dean soon realizes something is bothering his brother. Sam finally tells his brother that he knows about Amy and then walks away, saying that he can’t be around Dean right now. He tells Dean to go on without him, and Dean apologizes and drives away.

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GUEST STARS

	Jim Beaver	…	Bobby Singer / Leviathan
	Mark Sheppard	…	Crowley (as Mark A. Sheppard)
	James Patrick Stuart	…	Dick Roman
	Sean Owen Roberts	…	Chet / Leviathan
	Kim Rhodes	…	Sheriff Jody Mills
	Kevin McNally	…	Frank Devereaux (as Kevin R. McNally)
	Shaun Smyth	…	Special Agent Morris
	Morgan David Jones	…	Special Agent Valente / Leviathan
	Michael Hogan	…	Sheriff Osborne
	Jason Edward Coleman	…	Cop #1 / Leviathan (as Jason Coleman)
	Ramon Terrell	…	Leviathan
	Joseph Allan Sutherland	…	Cop #2 / Leviathan (as Joseph Sutherland)
	Debbie Timuss	…	Megan

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Behind The Scenes

TRAILER/CLIPS

Extended Trailer – Trailer – BTS Video – Preview – Out of Love

MUSIC

Big Wide River of Love” by Petunia and the Loons
(plays at the gas station)

“Waltz of the Flowers” by Pyotr Tchaikovsky
(plays when Sam and Dead are getting their new identities from Frank)

“All Out of Love” by Air Supply
(plays in the car while Dean silently sings along)

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QUOTES

Frank Devereaux: Little tip from a pro — there is no such thing as a random series of robbery murders by your evil twins. Well, have yourself some uppers and look at that some more.

Leviathan!Dean: [talking about a burger] You know, he has one of these every day? And in his heart, he thinks they’re almost as good as sex. This? [gesturing with the burger] Is disgusting.
Leviathan!Sam: [pushing away his own plate] Dead plants with creamy goo. It’s like eating self-righteousness.
Leviathan!Dean: I mean, honestly, I just… You know what? I can’t stand the guy. Talk about a hero complex. And he doesn’t have relationships. No, he has applications for sainthood. Oh, and he thinks he’s funny. He thinks he’s a damn comedian.
Leviathan!Sam: Who has two thumbs and full-blown bats in the belfry?
[points at himself with both thumbs]
Leviathan!Sam: I’m serious. It’s nothing but Satan-vision on the inside. I mean, how he’s walking around in a jacket with detachable arms is beyond me. You know, I had a brother with this many issues once.
Leviathan!Dean: Yeah?
Leviathan!Sam: You know what I did?
Leviathan!Dean: Mmm?
Leviathan!Sam: I ate him.
Leviathan!Dean: Of course you did.
Leviathan!Sam: How are these guys even a threat?
Leviathan!Dean: Boss says they gotta go, they gotta go.
Leviathan!Sam: Right. Idea. You wanna trade? I mean, I’ll take chuckles over schizo.
Leviathan!Dean: No, I like this one’s hair better. You can stay in the big one.
Leviathan!Sam: All right. In that case, let’s turn up the heat. The sooner I get out of this and into something more stable, the better.

Leviathan!Dean: I just want to let you know how much I’ve really grown to hate you and your brother since we’ve been wearing you. I just don’t get it. You could be anything. You’re strong, uninhibited, smart enough — believe it or not — but you’re so caught up in being good and taking care of each other!
Sam: What do you care?
Leviathan!Dean: Because it pisses me off!!… You’re wasting a perfectly good opportunity to subjugate the weak.

TRIVIA

The episode title “Slash Fiction” is a play on three references. First it is a reference to the Tarantino movie Pulp Fiction. Slash or slasher refers to a sub-genre of horror movies.

Slash fiction is also the name of a genre of fanfiction which pairs two characters of the same gender in a sexual relationship – see Slash for more information. There are references in the episode that compare Sam and Dean to a couple – Honey Bunny and Pumpkin from Pulp Fiction, Mickey and Mallory from Natural Born Killers as well as Mr. and Mrs. Smith.

This video compares scenes from the episode with the original movies.
And the final scene was one that Jensen mentioned at Salute to Supernatural Chicago 2011 as one that both he and Jared thought made Sam and Dean sound too much like a married couple, so they rewrote a couple of the lines.

 
Bobby: Okay, Chet. Let’s see how you like a little fruit of the poison tree.
Chet: Isn’t that just a legal expression?
Bobby: You’re gonna wish it was.

Fruit of the poisonous tree is a legal metaphor in the United States used to describe evidence that is obtained illegally, and which is therefore tainted by the means used to procure it.

Bobby: The greatest hits didn’t do the trick. I’m down to B-sides and deep cuts.

In music, the greatest hits are considered the artist’s signature songs. The B-sides are songs released to accompany singles, usually an outtake or a live performance. Deep cuts tend to be more obscure songs from full-length albums which don’t get as much airplay or recognition as the singles.

Bobby: Great. Just what we need — a Mensa monster.

Mensa is an organization for people who score within the upper two percent of the general population on an approved intelligence test.

Bobby: In the meantime, I’ll keep working on Chatty Cathy here, see if I can figure out what makes him die.

Chatty Cathy was a pull-string “talking” doll manufactured in the late 50’s and early 60’s.

Jody Mills: Oh sorry, little SNAFU here.

Jodi uses the term SNAFU, which stands for “situation normal: all fucked up.”

Sam: The usual?
Dean: Rhymes with sing songs!

Dean is referring to Ding Dongs – a small chocolate cake with a creamy center. In the gas station the box Sam picks up is called “Bing Bongs.”

Frank Devereaux: Well I’ll be darned: Psycho Butch and Sundance.

A reference to the two main characters in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, a 1969 film that tells the story of Wild West outlaws Robert LeRoy Parker, aka Butch Cassidy, and his partner Harry Longabaugh, aka the “Sundance Kid,” as they migrate to Bolivia while on the run from the law.
The Sundance Kid is also referenced by Sam in 6.18 Frontierland, when he calls Dean “Sundance.”
Both Robert Singer and Sera Gamble have mentioned the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid when discussing the current season.

Frank Devereaux: Well, my condolences on the doppelgangers. Now, who sent you? NSA? The Feeb? March of Dimes?

The National Security Agency (NSA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI, or “Feeb”) are intelligence organizations of the United States government. The March of Dimes is a nonprofit organization that works to improve the health of mothers and babies.

Frank Devereaux: You’re number two on the Most Wanted list. Quickest climb up the charts since Donna Summer.

Donna Summeris a signer/songwriter best known for several hit songs during the 1970s.

Frank Devereaux: Try to stay out of view of the 200 million cameras that the government has access to, k?
Dean: 200 million?
Frank Devereaux: Big Brother, he has many eyeballs, my friend.

Big Brother is a fictional character in George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. In the society that Orwell describes, everyone is under complete surveillance by the authorities, mainly by telescreens. The people are constantly reminded of this by the phrase “Big Brother is watching you,” which is the core “truth” of the propaganda system.
Big Brother is also referenced by Dean in 6.14 Mannequin 3: The Reckoning when he notices a camera in the lab where a janitor was found murdered.

Frank: Okay, we can Blue Steel you up some new I.D. – Mr. and Mr. Smith.

Blue Steel was the name of a signature modeling pose belonging to the titular character in the movie Zoolander. See Blue Steel for numerous references in the show, and by Jensen and Jared, to the look.

The aliases “Mr. and Mr. Smith” are a reference to the eponymous spy couple in the movie starring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie – Mr. and Mrs. Smith. In that movie the Air Supply song “Making Love Out Of Nothing at All” features on the soundtrack, and at one point Brad Pitt mimes to it in the car – as Dean does to another Air Supply song in this episode.

 
Chet: So you’re just gonna touch me in the morning, then just walk away?

Chet is citing a lyric from the Diana Ross song “Touch Me in the Morning.”

Bobby: You bleed, black snot, sure. But you bleed, you can die.

This is similar to Arnold Schwarzenegger’s famous line from the movie Predator: “If it bleeds, we can kill it.”

Dean: Nobody puts baby in a corner!
Sam: You know that’s a line from…
Dean: Swayze movie! Swayze always gets a pass!

“Nobody puts baby in a corner” is a line from the film Dirty Dancing.

 
The first locations visited by the Leviathans are Jericho, California (1.01 Pilot), Black Water Ridge, Colorado (1.02 Wendigo), Lake Manitoc, Wisconsin (1.03 Dead in the Water). Sam recognizes the pattern of attacks just before they attack St. Louis, Missouri (1.06 Skin). It was in St. Louis that Sam and Dean first encountered a shapeshifter, and it was due to the shapeshifter that Dean’s death was first faked. Ankeny, Iowa, where the boys are arrested, was where the events of 1.07 Hook Man took place.

 
Leviathan!Sam: Everybody be cool, this is a robbery!
Leviathan!Dean: Anybody moves and I’ll execute every last one of you!

The robbery of the burger shop in St. Louis by the Leviathans references the diner robbery in Pulp Fiction almost line for line. Fake Sam’s line is identical to Pumpkin’s. When the fake Dean jumps up on a table, his line “If anyone moves, I’ll execute every last one of you.” is almost the same as Honey Bunny’s in the movie – minus the expletives. The promo for the episode had Leviathan!Dean being bleeped as he said “motherfucking.” A surf-rock style guitar riff plays after their lines, somewhat reminiscent of the opening scene of Pulp Fiction. Bobby makes an additional reference to the movie by referring to the Leviathans as “Pumpkin” and “Honey Bunny” Diner scene with Pumpkin and Honey Bunny from Pulp Fiction.

Leviathan!Sam and Leviathan!Dean’s crime spree and media blitz calls to mind Mallory and Mickey in the film Natural Born Killers. In 6.06 You Can’t Handle the Truth Veritas says to Dean: “So Sam walking back into your life must’ve been a relief. Mallory to your Mickey.”
S.E. Hinton – famous author and Supernatural fan – has a part in the episode. Read Tweets by S.E. Hinton from the set.

 
While mimicking Bobby, Chet reveals that he’s a high school dropout who has lots of issues with his father, who was also a drunk, and that his favorite singer is Joni Mitchell.

 
Michael Hogan who plays Sheriff Osborne played Saul Tigh in Battlestar Galactica – who was actually a Cylon impersonating a human. See Weren’t You On Battlestar Galactica? for a list of all actors who have appeared on both Supernatural and Battlestar Galactica.

 
Sodium borate, or borax, is a natural occurring boron salt found in the Middle East, South America, North America, and Asia. It is a common chemical used in all manner of products from water softeners to pesticides. At high concentrations it can cause skin irritation in humans.

 
Dean: Okay, let me get Mr. Wizard on speed-dial.

Don Herbert aka Mr. Wizard hosted a series of TV shows about science for kids from the 1950s through to the 1990s.
Mr. Wizard has also been referenced by Sam in 5.06 I Believe the Children Are Our Future and Dean in 6.05 Live Free or Twihard.

Dean: You want me to Desperate Housewife these mothers?

Desperate Housewives is a prime time soap that started in 2004 about a group of suburban families.

Bobby putting Chet’s severed head in a box could be a reference to the movie Se7en, which famously ends with Gwyneth Paltrow’s head in a box.

 
Dick: I like where your head’s at, but sometimes less is more. Those boys coming back from the dead again starts to strain credulity, even for the American media. Am I right?

This line is a meta dig at the fact that Sam and Dean keep coming back from the dead. As Ben Edlund said at Comic Con 2010 “…these creatures, these poor men, cannot die. The cruel universe that will not let them die…That’s TV. TV will not let people die.”

Bobby’s confrontation with Chet, in which a chained Chet takes Bobby’s form and taunts him before being beheaded, echoes the confrontation between Crowley and the Alpha Shapeshifter in 6.10 Caged Heat.

 
In the Pontiac Acadian that the boys have to drive after ditching the Impala, there is a winged My Little Pony hanging from the rear-view mirror. Dean cuts it down with his knife. At the end of the episode, it is in the trunk alongside the Leviathan heads.

 
The newspaper that Bobby reads in Rufus’ cabin is the USA Times Weeky [sic]. The main story is “Killer duo still at large” and includes Sam and Dean’s mug shots and the caption “#2, FBI’S MOST WANTED LIST.”

 
In the season seven DVD set, there is an outtake from this episode called “Jensen Sings” where Jensen Ackles, in a similar situation as in 4.06 Yellow Fever sings along with Air Supply’s “All Out of Love” out loud instead of just silently singing like in the episode.

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